Carox divisa. By the Rev. James Farquharson. 355 



Fig. 6. Melohesia Zenormandt growing on a. stone. Natural size. 



Fig. 7. The same. 75 diam. 



Fig. 8. Spores. 500 diameters. 



All the plants figured are new British Algse, except Ehchista 

 Grevilln, but I am not acquainted with any work containing a 

 figure of that species in fruit. 



Carex divisa found in Holy Island. By the Rev. James 

 Faequhabson, M.A., Selkirk. 



On the 26th of June, 1883, the day before the Club paid its 

 last visit to Holy Island, when botanising there with the Eev. 

 Mr Paul, of Roxburgh, I picked up in the marshy ground 

 beyond the old windmill a Carex, of which it is worth while 

 making a note in the Proceedings. 



Not thinking there would be any difficulty in determining the 

 species, taking it indeed at the moment for C. omlis, which I 

 wished to examine minutely, I unfortunately did not secure a 

 specimen with roots, but gathered simply the herbage, and the 

 spikes, at that season immature. After returning to Selkirk I 

 examined the plant carefully, and found it to be certainly not C. 

 ovalis, but a species with which I was unacquainted, and which, 

 with the books of reference at my command, I could not satis- 

 factorily determine. Mr A. Brotherston, Kelso, to whom I sent 

 specimens, thought it was probably C. divisa, an opinion which 

 was confirmed by Mr J, Q-. Baker, of Kew, to whom on Mr 

 Brotherston's suggestion I forwarded the plant ; but neither of 

 them could pronounce on the species with certainty on account of 

 the immaturity of the fruit, and the want of roots in the speci- 

 mens submitted to them. Mr Baker having forwarded my note 

 to Professor Oliver, of Kew, who was residing at Bamborough 

 in August, that gentleman visited Holy Island and searched for 

 the plant ; but though he found the spot I had indicated to him, 

 he failed to find the Carex. 



In the month of September I had an opportunity of visiting 

 Kew, and was enabled by Prof. Oliver's kindness, and in his 

 company, to make a careful comparison of my specimens with 

 those of C. divisa in the Kew Herbarium, especially with the 



